Hi, I'm Holly. And I'm Haley. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. Welcome back everybody.
Hello. It's another week. It is. We are here for you.
We are kind of. Kind of. No, we're here. We're fine.
We're fine. Yeah, it's fine. It's all fine. We are.
Yeah, it's fine. My child has his preschool assessment coming up. I know. I know.
So I'm really prepping him. I'm like, like, I'm trying to get him into college a little bit, you know. So we're doing a lot of prep work for it. And honestly, I think he's going to be fine.
The whole boy talks about things like diesel engines and rotors and all these things that I don't really know about. So we were talking about train derailment earlier today. He was in a wild. I know.
He's a pretty smart guy. So I think he's going to be okay. But I'm like, God, say your ABC is all the way through. You know, because then he'll drift off.
But then he'll be like, you know, is that an ethanol or a diesel engine? And he's like, it's an ethanol. You know, so anyway. Okay, so that we're prepping for that.
But today, Haley, I have a story for you. Okay, that's really weird. I'm weirder than cocaine bear. That was that was weird.
But this one is this one has some paranoia, random death, a lot of questions, very few answers. And it's still open. So okay. All right.
So today we're focusing our attention on July 1996. Okay. The number one song was The Crossroads by Bone Thugs and Harmony. You ever heard that song?
No. The Crossroads, Crossroads, Crossroads. Never heard it. They played it at my high school graduation.
It's really interesting. Bone Thugs and Harmony. What year was that? 1996.
Oh, you weren't going to go to your high school graduation? A little later, but still they played that song. Okay. Because me and the Crossroads, it's like kind of the Crossroads.
Anyway, I won't get into it. Okay. The Summer Olympics opened in Atlanta, Georgia, which we were down there for. We wanted to go to, yeah, we're planning to go see it.
And I can't really remember. I think my parents were like, oh, so crowded. Let's just stay at your uncle's house and just not do that. I think my aunt was there during that.
Yeah. She lived in Atlanta for a while. And that number one movie at the box office was Independence Day, starring Will Smith. This is aliens are coming to destroy the Earth and you might have to fight back against them.
Have you seen that one? I don't know if I've seen it all the way through, but like I do know the movie. Yeah. Yeah.
I always get men in black and Independence Day kind of confused because they're somewhat similar. For a while, Will Smith was doing a lot of those movies. So I guess it's good. Nonetheless, it's just an odd thing for Will Smith to do now.
Now he just slaps people. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. So now we are starting our journey off in Canada, but rest easy loyal Appalachian listeners, we will be moving to our favorite place of debauchery, yours and mine, Knoxville. All right. So it's the 5th of July in 1996 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
When 31 year old Robert Dennis Blair Adams, otherwise known as Blair, went to the local bank and withdrew all the money in his account. Blair was a construction site foreman who had used his trade skills to build retirement communities, homes, you know, he was kind of a jack of all trades. He had a lot of skills. After emptying his bank account, he removed all of the gold and platinum jewelry and other items of value from his safety deposit box.
Okay. I mean, that's clearly he's doing very well. All those gold bars. Yes.
Yeah. Padded with money and jewels. Blair got into his Chevrolet Shavette. Okay.
I'm going to be honest, if you've got all that money and jewels, you're driving a Chevy Shavette. Have you seen these cars? No, I don't know what that is. Really ugly.
No offense if you guys are really into a Chevy Shavette, but they're like hatchbacks, not super exciting. You can see them. They're really kind of ugly cars. But anyway, he gets into his Chevy Shavette, which, yeah, Hayley made a face.
She thinks they're ugly too. Yeah. Pretty ugly. Yeah.
I can't say that. Maybe good on gas. Okay. Anyway, he went to Corton A.
B.C. That's how you pronounce it. Corton A. Corton A.
B.C. where his uncle lived and he was planning to stop in, surprise him, you know, maybe have dinner, hang out. But when he knocked on the door, the uncle wasn't home. Okay.
Instead of sticking around and waiting for his uncle to come back, he was like, forget this. And he drove to Victoria and boarded a ferry that was headed to Seattle, Washington. So when he reached the border of the United States and Canada, he raised some suspicions by US authorities. United States immigration actually flagged Blair as a potential drug fuel due to the large amount of cash and valuables on his person.
I mean, yeah, that does look super suspicious. Definitely. So he was held while officials did a background check and asked him a few questions. Like, why you got all this stuff?
What is your intention when you come into these here, United States? Why do you have all this stuff on you? What's going on? I can imagine.
So after running Blair's history, they found that he had been convicted on drug and assault charges. Great. Yeah. So due to his sketchy past and his current possession of money in jewelry, that was enough to deny him entry into the country.
Yeah. Blair was in back to Canada. Okay. Yeah.
You guys officials were like, listen, we got enough of this shit. We can't take any more. We can't take what kind of our quota. We reach our max maybe try again next month.
A lot going on in Appalachia. We just need you to back up. We can't have it over here in Seattle as well. Get back to Canada.
So off he went, he went back to Canada. So over the next few days, Blair traveled to very cities in BC and visited with friends and eventually ended up back in Surrey with his mom. Okay. Now before he said goodbye to his friends, he did knock on one friend's door and say, oh my gosh, I need you to drive me to the border.
His friend said, wait, why? And he said, somebody's after me. They're trying to get me. I need you to just drive me there.
And the friend said, listen, I got kids. I can't just drive you to the border. Yeah. So frustrated.
He left and that's when he went to go visit his mother. Well, his mother said that he seemed super anxious and afraid. And when she asked him why he didn't just go home to his own apartment, like why he wanted to stay with her, he stated that he couldn't because they were watching and they were waiting for him. Cool.
That's the big question. All right. So you've got this guy, like super, super paranoid, asking friends and family to like drive him over the border. He seems really anxious.
He has taken out all of his money, all of his possessions and doesn't seem like he knows exactly where he's going. Right. So yeah, Blair left his mother's house on July 9th and was discovered by Canadian border patrol at the Pacific Highway border crossing. Blair was attempting to cross over the border into Blaine, Washington on foot.
Okay. I mean, that kind of calls for distant desperation. Yeah. You know, yeah.
So when Blair was stopped by Canadian officials, they noted that he had scratches on his hands and on his legs. And he also matched the description of a man who had recently stolen a car. This car was later found abandoned near the Pacific Highway border crossing. This was enough to hold Blair over for more questioning this time by Canadian officials.
So Blair, when asked like, you know, you meet the description of the sky, could it be you? He denied it. He said, yeah, he's like, this is not me. I have nothing to do with stealing a car.
And after several hours of questioning and very little evidence to go on, they let him go. Oh, no. Again. So here's the question.
How many times are we going to let this guy go? I mean, kind of seems like he's not really learning his lesson here. And it also, like I said, speaks to some kind of desperation that he wants to get into the United States so badly. There's something going on.
So it's like, what is on the other side? Is he meeting with somebody is, you know, but he seems kind of scared. So is he running out of the country because someone's chasing him? Did he do something wrong?
And it kind of seems like if he really did steal a car, he doesn't have anything to lose. Right. Like the fear is really pushing him forward. Yeah, there's something sketching going on there.
Very much so. So Blair had had a romantic relationship with his male roommate in early 1995. So this is kind of going back a little. But their relationship fizzled out in the two with their separate ways.
I guess there was nothing really keeping Blair in Canada. So he didn't have anything really fixed. Even his mom and his family and friends, he was like, no, I'm willing to sacrifice it all to go. So being determined to gain entrance into the US, maybe think maybe when I go to the Olympics, maybe so, you know, I mean, that's, that's a lot to go through to go to the Olympics.
But you know, that is kind of a once in a lifetime thing. Maybe also I was up with the people that are chasing you. That's true. And maybe there was some kind of connection.
Yeah. You know, we know that there are the Unibomber heard during the Olympics in 1996. So maybe there was some connection. Who's to say who's to say?
All right. Well, the next day, after he was caught by Canadian Border Patrol, he went to the Vancouver International Airport. Yes. And rented a 1996 Nissan Ultima.
He decided to try to enter the US again via car. All right. First on ship, then by foot, now by car. This time around, Blair was successful.
Whoa. I don't know if you all have ever tried to go US, Canada and vice versa. Okay. So I have, they typically will ask you, you know, your reason for coming into the country.
They ask you, you know, your name where you were born, date, like all those things. And they also can check your car and check you. So if you look suspicious, there's a higher likelihood that you're going to get flagged and checked and pulled over and those kinds of things. If it seems like you're just a family traveling or, just a guy traveling and you have a really good excuse and answer, they may let you through.
So this time around, apparently he said something right. He maybe didn't look as shady and yeah, I don't know what he did differently, but they let him through. Interesting. Yeah.
So very interesting. He drove the rental car to the Seattle airport where he purchased a round trip ticket to Frankfurt, Germany. All right. Now I have read several articles.
Some articles say that he purchased this round trip ticket in Canada. And some people say that he purchased it in Seattle. So I don't know, but conflicting articles. But nonetheless, he did purchase this trip to Frankfurt.
Apparently, yeah, like Germany, that sounds very random and weird. Well, Blair had actually worked in Germany for his stepfather who owned a construction company called S.S. Cedar Homes. Okay.
He also had a German girlfriend. Yeah, it appeared that Blair planned to make a holiday of it and probably go see this girlfriend. Okay. Of course you ask yourself, why couldn't Blair just book a flight, you know, and see the girlfriend and like make the I don't know, like why wouldn't you tell friends?
Like why wouldn't you say like, if I were going overseas, you know, to see someone special, I would be like, Oh my gosh, guys, I'm actually going to, you know, Germany to go see, you know, whoever. Yeah, Jean, Jean, that's French. But maybe he lives in Germany now. He's French.
Well, she's all hopefully that plane goes much now. Very quickly. All right. So it's kind of weird.
Like, why wouldn't you tell anybody that? I don't know. I don't get it. All right.
So a lot of things seem suspicious. In you, whatever. Then Blair, just out of nowhere before he boards the flight decides, I'm going to change my plans. So he tells the ticket agent that his friend in Germany got sick and he can't go.
So he wants to refund his ticket. All right. So they did, which this also just shows it's so pre 9 11 where they're just willing to like, yeah, sure, change your ticket, do whatever you want. Sure.
We'll give you a refund. Whatever you want. Please. That's fine.
A refund. Sure. You decided not to go. Okay.
Here's a refund. Now days are like, you booked it. You bought it. Yeah, you're going.
Sorry. So instead he booked an overnight flight, a one-way flight from Seattle to Washington, DC. Guess how much the flight cost him? Like $50.
$800. Okay. Well, yeah, because this was an overnight, red eye and it was a one-way ticket. So keep in mind that a round trip ticket would have cost him $300.
So why not just book the round trip? Kind of seems like he doesn't want to come back. Well, I mean, book it. None of you don't use it fine.
He still say $400. Exactly. No matter what. So it doesn't make sense.
It also speaks to he didn't want to come back to the Pacific Northwest. Right. Okay. So he boards the flight and arrives the next morning on July 10th at Dulles International Airport.
Okay. There he rented a Toyota Camry and was on the road by 645 in the morning. I mean, I'm an early bird in general. My kids usually up between 5 and 530 every morning.
But that sounds pretty exhausting. I mean, he's traveled pretty consistently for the last several days, like tried to make it over the border multiple times. Yeah, there's probably not a lot of sleep involved. And now he's he's on the road in the Camry.
All right. Well, he was determined to drive from Washington, DC, southward. So while driving through Troy, Virginia, Blair was backing up and apparently hit the car behind him. The damage to the other car was pretty minor and the owner of the vehicle stated that Blair was very nice, but made it clear that he was traveling and he was in a hurry and kind of seemed a little anxious.
Yeah, like I got to get out of here. Yeah, like crap, you know. So the accident was not reported to the police nor the insurance since it seemed pretty minor, which again, if you're driving a rental car, that's a pretty big deal to get into an accident. Yeah, you don't want to do that.
No, that's a lot of stuff. And usually in a scenario like that, you would call the police. You would have to have that documented all those things and they would call the car rental company. So he was like, just whatever.
And I don't know it doesn't say maybe he threw some money at the people. Yeah, so who knows. But wasn't reported, he continued to drive for five more hours until he reached Knoxville, Tennessee around 4 30 p.m. Okay.
Blair was spotted around 5 30 that evening at a local gas station where he complained to the gas station attendant that he was having difficulty with his car key. And he for some reason, you know, the fob and he could not get into the car. The attendant called a local mechanic and informed them that Blair was having trouble trying to open his Toyota door, you know. So the attendant came and tried to help him and said, Mr.
Adams, I'm sorry, but you're trying to open this Toyota Camry door with a Nissan Altima key. Oh man. Hailey was so stunned. Oh my drop.
I'm like, drop right into my lap. Oh my gosh, not an Altima key in the Toyota. So wrong key. Wrong key.
So of course we know Altima key was the one that the car that he drove over the border. Right. And he now just says the key. The mechanic stated that it didn't appear that he was under the influence of any kind of substances, but that perhaps maybe he was just struggling with his mental health.
Yeah, there's a there's yeah, there's not the forethought to change keys out. Right. And like he didn't understand, but he had been driving this car. So clearly he had a Toyota key.
Right. So yeah. So the mechanic worker tried to convince Blair to like look in his pockets and like empty them out like maybe that he's in your pocket, you know, kind of thing. And so he had opened up his pockets and put it all out there and nothing, you know.
So maybe he had locked it in the car. So eventually they called a tow truck and the car was towed to a mechanic shop so they could like get in it. Anyway, meanwhile, the worker told Blair, listen, you know, it's getting late. I don't know if the mechanic will be able to even get to it until the morning.
So why don't you stay here at this hotel, you know, get a good night's sleep and in the morning, come get the car. So Blair is taken to the local Fairfield Inn where he spent, you know, he was to spend the night until his car was ready the next morning. Blair is actually caught on camera in the lobby of the newly opened hotel. He's seen pacing back and forth in the lobby.
You can see him. He comes in. He comes out. He kind of seems to be loiter.
Like if I were the front desk person, I'd be like, oh, I need to call the cops. This feels icky. Yeah. You know, like, can I help you, sir?
What's going on? Kind of seem like, like my dad would say he wasn't dealing with a full dick. All right. Yeah, my dad's not as savvy with the therapy terms.
Anyway, I love it. But yeah, it seemed like he was disturbed. Yeah. After going in and out of the lobby five different times, he finally checked in and booked a room for the night.
He paid cash for the room and the receptionist tried to give him back his change. But before she could, he again just walks out of the building, never collecting his money nor even going to his room. So she's like, sir, sir. All right.
Well, I don't know what to do with this. I just, sir, consider it a tip. I don't know. So an employee at the hotel actually saw Blair outside the hotel looking over his shoulder and seemingly very paranoid.
Okay. He was very nervous and prepared to be agitated. That doesn't feel good. The worker said it seemed like Blair was waiting on somebody.
So, you know, like, okay, when is this person gonna come? But what's strange about this piece is it also seems like he never would have stopped in Knoxville. He just stopped to get gas, you know, and situation kind of made it to where he ended up. The suggestion to stop at the Fairfield was made by the mechanic.
Right. So why he's looking like he's waiting on somebody makes absolutely no sense unless he feels like somebody's following him. Blair left the hotel and was seen in Dandridge, Tennessee, which was about 33 miles away from Knoxville. He was seen by workers at TR Collision Center between 9 and 10 30 p.m.
He was flipping through tattoo magazines of all things and talking to an identified man about Canadian currency. Okay. I mean, just shooting the shit, looking at tats, you know, we're saying like, you know, oh, wow, let's talk about some some money that has the queen's face on it. Yeah.
Yeah. I like it. Yeah. Okay.
So another sighting came from two women who saw Blair at a cracker barrel with another man. God bless cracker barrel. I mean, you talk about southern white people food. But that's it?
Cracker barrel. But you know what I like about a cracker barrel? They're little shops on the inside. They got a nice little shop.
I like breakfast. They're breakfast is good. They have a hash brown casserole that is pretty tasty. Mm hmm.
Yeah. Like a pancakes. Have it been there in a while. That's our next, you know what?
We should host an episode from the cracker barrel. Nothing is more southern than a cracker barrel. You're right. The cracker barrel.
I mean, with a name like cracker barrel. That's right. For those of you who are in other parts of the United States and have never been to a cracker barrel or your overseas, essentially cracker barrel is a restaurant slash gift shop, where you can have breakfast food, which is quite delightful. And you can also have desserts like a Coca-Cola cake.
Yeah. And it's very like, when I say white people's southern food, it's like mashed paters. Yeah. You know meatloaf.
Meatloaf. Chicken and dumplings. Chicken and dumplings, yeah. Chicken and waffles.
Not quite as good as like, you know, obviously your your southern grainy would make. Right. But it's the tries. It tries.
Yeah. It's you know, it's one of mine like if I'm road tripping and I've been driving through the night or something like that and I need to stop somewhere and just have a hearty meal. Good meal. You start with the cracker barrel is always a road trip option.
And if you have to be, which I consistently have to be, they've got good bathrooms and not just that, but they also have their own little like handmade goat lotion. You know what I mean? This one's like a sugar scrub. Yes.
It's delightful. It really is. And most of the times their bathrooms are pretty clean. So that's why I stop.
But and I like to look at their stuff. They have pretty cool stuff. You know, I have gotten before a nice poncho pull over. Pretty delightful look handmade.
Yeah. So anyway, if you are traveling and you see a cracker barrel, stop on it. Stop on it. Stop on it.
So you've tried it. Yeah. Tell them it was recommended to you buy a podcast. Yeah.
You recommend the cracker barrel. Exactly. Exactly. We get no points or no free meals for that, but we thought we would throw that out there.
So back to our story. The lair had been seen by two women at a cracker barrel again with another man. So it's saying that he wasn't alone. Right.
All right. So these sightings get this. We're later ruled out by police. Oh, so he was not at the cracker barrel based on their time and location.
They said no, he was not at the cracker barrel. Shh. It really is because it's cracker barrel. So on July 11th at 7 a.m.
a crew of construction workers walked towards a man they assumed was homeless sleeping on the pavement in front of the fairfield in. Well, I'll be honest, this is a very common sighting kind of where we live. Oh, yeah. So there's like homeless people.
I mean, it's just normal. I was at a restaurant last night with a friend and a man walked in with no shoes on and got the and the lovely like people who work there, they gave him some food and let him use their bathroom and then he just kind of chilled for a little while. So it is very common, especially in certain cities. It's not just like a, you know, New York City, Boston, Chicago.
I think we got it in. Our little southern cities as well. Oh, very common. Part of the reason is this area is extremely expensive to live in.
And you know, the cost of living versus you know what a lot of people make at their jobs really don't meet. So we have a lot of homeless and you get off any freeway exit and there's a homeless person begging for money. Like it's just it's common, you know. So anyway, but this was common in Noxo too.
So again, they just assumed like, he's sleeping, you know, just not alarmed. Not alarmed. It was just part of the normal. So this I wanted to take the like, just a homeless man.
Oh, my, how could that happen? Well, it happens all this way. Yeah. So as they approached him, they quickly realized that the man was not sleeping.
Oh, no, he was dead. Oh gosh. So they called 911 and the Knox County police responded. The body was that of 31 year old Blair Adams.
Who would have thought? I know what a twist is a story. What a twist. Blair was found half naked from the waist down.
Now this is the twist. He has shirt on, but it was half open. His socks were on the asphalt and the car keys from the Toyota Camry. So he did have them all along.
With a hotel key card, we're found scattered all over the ground. Did he have pants? No, the pants were off his way off of him. Did he have underwear?
I didn't say anything about the underwear. I don't think so. I don't think he had underwear on. He was so barren.
He was 100%. I love that analogy. I love that thought. Yeah, except he didn't have a smooth part.
So he was actually, he was a man. Just, you know, show them. You know? Yeah, it is.
Blair shoes were also off, but one shoe was tucked underneath his head, almost a pillow. So it suggested like, did he take that off himself? Right. Or did, or did, who ever did this to him say, you know what he looks like?
He needs a little pillow. Yeah, so weird. So thousands of dollars in German, Canadian, and American currency were found scattered around the body. Yeah.
Police also found a fanny pack and a duffel bag containing travel receipts and maps. Remember, this was before we could just iPhone and GDS things. Inside the fanny pack was jewelry, money, gold bars, and sunglasses that had all just been left untouched. So that quickly rules out robbery.
That was non-emotive. Blair appeared to have many scratches and bruises on his body. And autopsy was conducted by the University of Tennessee Medical Center. And it was determined that Blair had been hit by some type of metal instrument in the forehead.
But of course, that was not the thing that killed him. autopsy revealed that Blair's cause of death was due to blunt force trauma to the stomach that caused a perforation of his bowel and intestine. Yeah. So that's how he died.
That's a perforation. That's a horrible way to die. Yeah. Blair also had many wounds and appeared that they were defensive.
He had tried to fight back against his attacker. Blair was missing strands of hair that had been pulled out amidst all of this. His hands were bloody. And it looked like he had used his hands to protect himself against the blows.
Only real physical evidence from the assailant was found at the scene. There was a strand of hair in Blair's hand that didn't match Blair. Gotcha. So at first police thought the crime was sexually motivated since Blair was missing his pants and underwear.
And you know, some of the injuries appeared. Maybe they were sexual in nature. I am assuming that he had some wounds, maybe to his genitalia as well. Toxicology reports show that Blair had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
Again, like many people had stated, didn't seem like he was under the influence. During the autopsy, lettuce, shrimp, and meat were all found in his stomach, which suggests that prior to his death, he left the hotel and had dinner somewhere. Right. Not the cracker barrel.
That does not sound like the cracker barrel. No, no, no. Side note here, it takes lettuce anywhere from 30 minutes to one hour to be digested in the system, where a shrimp and meat take much longer around two days. So if lettuce was still left in his stomach and not totally digested, exactly, it suggests that he was most likely killed no more than an hour after eating.
So that also speaks to he couldn't have been a dandridge at the cracker barrel. There's no way. So I see why police rule that out. Here's some theories.
You ready? I'm ready. All right. Some believe that Blair was in Knoxville as part of a drug operation, but prior to leaving Canada, Blair called someone in the US and was making all these plans.
And that was a belief. That was a theory that they were going on. Maybe he was into drugs. Maybe he was being used in some way.
That's why he had all this money. He was a construction foreman. Why did he have all this gold and jewelry and it's kind of random? But when they pulled his phone records, there was nothing.
There was no contact in the US. There was nothing unusual. So it didn't seem like at least via his home bone he was using making connections, which back then there were still payphones. So he could have been using a payphone.
But his friend said like he was never involved with drugs. That was not his scene. They couldn't imagine that. All right.
So that's theory number one. theory number two. Blair was involved in some kind of sex act gone wrong. So apparently the spare filled in this lovely new hotel was next to a truck stop.
That was known for prostitution. It was theorized that Blair paid for sex and the act took place in the bed of a truck. Instead of offering sex, the pimp and the prostitute tried to rob Blair and he fought back. They hit him in the head with the crowbar and then ran him over with the bumper of the truck, which caused the appropriation.
To back up this theory, a local security guard stated that he heard screaming around 3 30 in the morning, but stated that the scream seemed to come from a woman because it was very high pitched. It's also thought perhaps that maybe the prostitute screamed when Blair was like abruptly hit in the forehead with like a metal crowbar by the the pimp. So that's one of the theories going around that it was actually just kind of circumstance. But what does it make sense about that?
He still had all his money on him. Like they didn't steal him. So if the motive was to like kill him and steal, they didn't. Yeah.
Makes no sense. All right. Year number three, he was headed to Atlanta to go to the Olympic Games. He just happened to stop and knock spill to get gas, had the issue with the key, was going to stay the night, acting odd and like he out super duper late was probably a recipe for disaster.
And it makes you think what restaurant would have been open that late? I hop. One of these breakfast places. Waffle house.
Usually a waffle house. So it does speak to, you know, what he ate. So yeah, maybe like a diner that did some kind of shrimp surf and turf because he had shrimp and meat. So that seems very unless the shrimp and meat was something he ate prior and maybe he had a salad at the I hop that could have been.
Yeah. So you know, perhaps he was walking back and you know, somebody approached him and he got offensive or belligerent. Maybe the I hop he was kind of rude or you know, something happened and the person was like, I'm not going to stand for this and they got into it and they killed him. All right.
So there's a theory. Here's the last one. The whole theory that someone was out to get Blair. Yeah.
Like where does that come from? Where does this fear come from? I mean, dude was like a construction foreman. Yeah, like he had enemies.
Yeah. So the thought is that whomever was out to get him actually followed him across the country. Something to note here Blair's stepfather has not been too keen on keeping this cold case open, which it is a cold case. He feels the chance of solving the case is quote unquote, remote as hell and that they don't want to open a can of worms by continuing to pursue this.
Now it could be that stepdad is actually fearful himself. Yeah. Especially if somebody really was chasing him. Yeah.
You know, it has a spend data. So it's been 26 years since Blair was found dead in Knoxville and we are still no closer to finding his killer or why Blair stated by friends and family like he told them that he was paranoid. Like he didn't say he was paranoid. He said that he was scared that someone without to get him and seemed by all accounts to be terrified.
Yeah. So was there someone just waiting to meet up with him and you know, kill him? Was he really on his way to the Olympic Games just for, you know, good times? I don't know.
That also doesn't seem like something you would travel alone across country to do. Yeah. Yeah. If you're out there and you have information about this case, we encourage you to touch base with the Knoxville County cold case unit.
You can do so by calling area code 8652152675 or you can email them at coldcaseatknoxsharef.org. That is C-O-L-D-C-A-S-E at KnoxKN-O-Xsharef.org. Nice. Yeah.
So, um, I don't know, most people really describe Blair as really a lovely individual and his mom said up until the month before he disappeared, he was just a great guy. Like everybody loved him and then he just started being really erratic in his moves and kind of seemed like maybe he was having some paranoia. When she asked him what was wrong, he said, I don't think I should tell you about it. And she said when she was interviewed by Unsolved Mysteries in 1997, she said, I still don't know what it was or is.
Yeah. Um, he had actually right before he left to go to the U.S. He just abruptly quit his job. Came in, got his last paycheck left.
Yeah. Like nobody knows. And the girlfriend that he had in Canada, or excuse me, the girlfriend he had in Frank for Germany, they had since broken up. But she said I had no idea that he was planning to come.
Like he'd never called me. So this whole initial plan about going to Germany and then changing his mind, like she never said, Hey, I'm sick. Like none of that happened. None of that transpired.
So yeah, I just, I don't understand it. Loving sweet guy who just quickly, you know, has a shift in personality and then winds up dead in all city, like of all cities Knoxville. Yeah. What the heck?
That's on a a. Hey, I don't know. It's just really weird. So yeah, he's he's still, um, he's still there's some out there.
Yeah. But that's the story of Blair Adams. All right. That's a lot.
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I think that it can be solved. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Hope so.
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I'm sure that's how my grandma's walk though. I love it. I was three. She was like, go make me some coffee.
I was three. Yes. Yeah. That's crazy.
I learned early. Yeah. All right. Well, y'all have a great week and we will see you back here next week.
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